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059. At My Door II
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2026-05-22 09:44:55
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Married For The Show 062. Comfort
RAINA Tears kept coming.Not the kind I could control. Not the kind I'd learned to do silently in Castor's house with my face in a pillow and my hand over my mouth. This was the other kind. The kind that twists your face and steals your voice and makes you feel like your body is trying to turn itself inside out.His expression broke open. The composure, the control, all of it fell away in a single second. He reached for my arm, pulled me inside, and shut the door behind me."What happened?"I tried to speak. The words came out in fragments. Andrei — the lawn —Two guards dragging him —SUV — Construction — Lost them."Slow down." His hands were on my shoulders. Both of them. Firm and steady. "Breathe. Look at me. Breathe."I looked at him. His grey eyes were fixed on mine. Solid. Certain. I grabbed onto them like a lifeline.I breathed. In. Out. Again.The words came back. Shaky but whole this time. I told him what I saw from the study window. What Andrei had been screaming. How I'd f
Married For The Show 061. Andrei
RAINAI almost kissed Sylvester Brian.Three days later and that was still the only thought in my head. Not Castor. Not Teddy. Not Bogdan in the cage or the warehouse on the south side or anything else that should have mattered more than the feeling of his breath on my mouth and the half inch of air that was the only thing that had kept his lips from mine.On the fourth day, Castor left for an afternoon meeting with Felix.The house went still. Teddy was in his room. Maria was in the kitchen. The security detail was at the front gate. I had about twenty of uninterrupted silence.I took the USB drive from behind the panel in my closet and slipped it into my cardigan pocket. Then I went upstairs.Castor's study door was locked. I'd expected that. But the lock was simple. The kind the compact pick Sylvester had given me was made for. I knelt in front of the door, worked the pick the way he'd taught me. Click once. Feel for the pin. Turn slow.The lock gave.I pushed the door open and st
Married For The Show 060. Up to Something
MARIA I had worked in this house for fourteen years. I knew every room, every corner. Every creak in every floorboard. I knew which doors stuck in the summer heat and which windows let in drafts in December. I knew the exact time the morning light hit the kitchen counter and the exact hour the west hallway went dark in the evenings. I knew this house the way you know a body you've been caring for that isn't your own. Every detail memorized. None of it loved. Before Raina came, the days were the same. Wake at five. Coffee on the stove by five thirty. Castor's breakfast laid out by seven. The house cleaned top to bottom by noon. Laundry. Ironing. Dinner prep. Then the evening, when the house changed into something else. Something I'd learned to ignore. You knew it was there. You knew it could burn you. So you kept your eyes down and your mouth shut and you got through it. That's how I survived fourteen years. Eyes down. Mouth shut. Kenneth Rowland had hired me with a pro
Married For The Show 059. At My Door II
SYLVESTERBut right now, with her eyes back to my mouth, and her scent filling my lungs...I wasn't thinking about how brave she was.The way her body had pressed against mine was still burned into my memory from the factory.This close to her I couldn't think straight.I was thinking about how her lip caught the light when she talked. How she pressed her lips together when she was concentrating, and how that small movement tightened something low in my stomach every time."Raina.""Yes?""You're looking at me like that again.""Like what.""Like you want me to do something I shouldn't."At my words the room went still. I could hear my own heartbeat. I could feel hers too, or maybe I was imagining it, but her pulse seemed to have trippled. Each beat faster than the last.I lifted my hand. Slowly. Giving her time to pull back. Time to say stop.She didn't. She didn't say a word.My fingers found the piece of hair that had fallen across her face. I tucked it gently behind her ear. My h
Married For The Show 058. At My Door
SYLVESTERI was in my study with a stack of files spread out across the desk when the doorbell rang.Nine o'clock on a Tuesday night. I wasn't expecting anyone. Patrick was in D.C. for the week. Nobody else had this address except the people who needed it.I closed the file I'd been reading. A property deed connected to one of Castor's shell companies. The kind of document that looked boring until you noticed the signatures at the bottom didn't match any name on public record.The doorbell rang again.I crossed the apartment and opened the door.Raina.She was the last person I expected to see tonight. I hadn't heard from her since she was last here. No texts on the burner. No calls. Nothing. I'd told myself the silence was a good thing. Space was smart. Distance was necessary.Now she was standing on my doorstep in a black dress and every word I'd said to myself evaporated.The dress was simple. That was the worst part. It wasn't trying to do anything. It just fit her. Tight at the w
Married For The Show 057. Teddy Speaks
RAINAThe new boy had been in the house for two days when I went back to Teddy's room.I brought the usual tray. Soup. Bread. Water. I'd stopped expecting him to eat it in front of me. The routine was simple. I brought it. I sat. I left. The bowl was empty by morning.Today, his door was open a crack. I pushed it with my elbow and stepped inside.He was sitting up.Just upright, his back against the headboard, a pillow behind him. His eyes were open and clear in a way they hadn't been since before the dinner. He still looked thin. Still looked hollowed out. But something had changed.He watched me come in.He didn't tell me to leave.As usual, I set the tray on the bedside table and sat down in the chair beside the bed. Folded my hands in my lap.We sat like that for a while. Him watching me. Me waiting."You saw the new one." he finally said."Yes.""His name is Andrei.""I know. I heard Castor talking to him."Something moved across his face. A flicker of something dark."He's too
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